Originally Posted by
N965VJ
Apologies for the tardy reply. The problem is your employer’s focus on non-threats such as drugs and cash are a dangerous distraction from keeping weapons, explosives and incendiaries from passing though the checkpoint. Using illegal drugs as an analogy is an example of this.
Actually we dont. We dont stop a bag because it may have drugs in it, drugs just happen to often appear as an organic substance, just like many explosives do. But if we go into a bag looking for your toothpaste and find your stash of dope then of course we notify a LEO. What the LEO does with the situation from there is up to them.
And thats how the vast majority of drugs are found in TSA workplaces. We are searching a bag for a suspected prohibited item and we find the stash. Its not intentional but we cannot ignore it. And once found its not our function to do anything about it, thats why we call a LEO. Its not a distraction to find them, but it does tend to be a pain in the neck.